United States Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and European Union Trade Commissioner Phil Hogan announced on Friday agreement on a package of tariff reductions that will increase market access for hundreds of millions of dollars in U.S. and EU exports. These tariff reductions are the first U.S.-EU negotiated reductions in duties in more than two decades. Under the […]
Allegations by Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko that foreign troops were operating near the country’s border are baseless, NATO said. Europe’s longest-serving leader said on Saturday that NATO troops in Poland and Lithuania were “seriously stirring” near their borders with Belarus and ordered his troops into full combat readiness. The 65-year-old leader ordered his defence minister […]
France reported its highest daily level of coronavirus cases since the end of a two-month lockdown period in May. The French health ministry on Sunday reported 4,897 new COVID-19 cases over the past 24 hours, which is a jump from Saturday’s numbers when 3,602 cases were reported. The death toll also increased by one, bringing […]
Spanish police announced on Friday that they have dismantled two human smuggling rings believed to have facilitated the crossing into France of hundreds of irregular immigrants. The two smuggling networks operated from Bilbao and Vitoria, two cities in the north-western Basque County. Fifteen people have been arrested including three in the Spanish capital, Madrid, and […]
Statement by David McAllister (EPP, DE), Chair of the Parliament’s EU-UK Coordination Group, after the latest round of talks on the future relationship between the UK and the EU: “Michel Barnier just debriefed the UK Coordination Group in the European Parliament about the seventh negotiation round with the United Kingdom. Unfortunately, the past weeks have […]
The number of new COVID-19 cases shot up in France to more than 4,700 on Thursday while Spanish authorities warned that “things are not going well”. France’s public health agency said that 4,771 people had been found to have been infected with COVID-19 on Thursday. The country had not seen the number of cases jump over […]
ECB and other major central banks to reduce frequency of 7-day US dollar operations from three times per week to once per week, while 84-day operations continue to be offered weekly New frequency effective as of 1 September 2020, to remain in place for as long as appropriate to support smooth functioning of US dollar funding markets […]
€50 million in EIB financing backs the research and development (R&D) programme of AVL, a leading Austrian engineering company in the automotive sector The loan comes on top of a 2017 financing to support AVL’s R&D in electrified powertrains and autonomous driving The operation benefits from a guarantee under the European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI), […]
Germany announced on Thursday that it has recorded 1,707 new COVID cases over the previous 24 hours, the highest number since late April. The latest increase takes the total number of infections in the country to 228,621 since the beginning of the pandemic. A further 10 people are also known to have died from COVID-19, […]
Yesterday, the Commission signed a contract to make the funding of €2.5 million from the Emergency Support Instrument available for training of a multidisciplinary pool of healthcare professionals supporting and assisting Intensive Care Units (ICU) in times of need due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The training will provide intensive care medical skills to healthcare professionals not regularly […]
